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[varadia]

This meme entertains me. A lot. And I want to participate. So.

Name a character that you know I write or have written, and I'll tell you:

a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
b. One of his/her best traits.
c. One of his/her worst traits.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
e. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.

Comments

[adiva_calandia]

I would ask about Raven, but I think we went over a bunch of this last weekend. *grin*

Umm. Nynaeve! Or Anna! Your choice.

[varadia]

I fell in love with Nynaeve as a character waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in The Eye of the World when she stands up to Moiraine and calls her out (in private) about taking the children from the village. And at the way she just takes her responsibilities so seriously. Yep. Her crush on Lan was also not un-adorable. And her competence at tracking. I am easy!

I think one of her best traits is her practicality, whether it has to do with Healing and triage or village matters. She loses sight of that on the way, but later on she gets it back with a VENGEANCE. And it serves her so, so, so very well.

One of her worst traits--I think it's a toss-up between her vicious vicious temper that is often out of control and her weird-ass views on men, and how verbal she is about them. Both of them cause her trouble, in different ways, and I wish she'd just stop with the man-thing. Even when it's funny.

Writing her is hard for me. Very hard. She is so crotchety, and there is a delicate balance to keep between having her be funny and having her be respectable, and having her be a strong character even in the midst of irrational fits of temper. It--it's tiring.

I think her intro-thread with Rand and Moiraine, and then later her thread with Paul Atreides, I think those captured her character quite well. Her relationship with Lan--that's been hard to get to paper and feel RIGHT. Except when they don't talk. *g*

As for future-stuff. I have some plans with her, though most of those depend on getting the last volume of canon. *sigh*

[varadia]

I think I fell in love with Anna when I wrote her backstory story. Man. I just. That is so her, and it explains so much. So.

I think one of her best traits is her willingness to laugh at herself, or at anything. I really do love that about her.

One of her worst traits is her inherent distrust of circumstances and people, and the fact that she is/was/will be always poised to flee. It doesn't do much for her, and it keeps her keeping people at a distance. Yeah.

I don't find her very hard to write at all. It's a good thing, probably, given the way the game goes in fits and starts.

I think I best captured her, really, in several of the Gwen-threads, in the one where she and Daniel agree to cohabitate, and in that backstory OOWL thing, because--those are pretty much the things you need to know to know Anna.

Boy do I have plans for her. Not least ways to edge her into moving toward becoming Sheriff of the post-apocalyptic Chicago area! *g*